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CURRICULUM VITAE NICOLAS ANGELET I. General information ANGELET, Nicolas Georges Born in Ghent, Belgium, 1 April 1964 Belgian nationality Email: [email protected] [email protected] Tel: +32 477 358 401 II. Education LL.D., Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 1997 Research at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany (6 months, 1995-1996) LL.M. in European Law, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1989 LL.M. in International Law, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1988 Lic. Jur., University of Ghent, 1986 III. Professional activities : Legal Practice Avocat at the Brussels Bar. Until 31 December 2018, partner and head of the public international law practice with Liedekerke Wolters Waelbroeck Kirkpatrick, Brussels. Associate Tenant, Doughty Street Chambers, United Kingdom. Member of the panel of ICSID conciliators (appointed by Belgium) and arbitrators (appointed by Burundi). Consultancy and litigation in public international law and international business law, notably international investment law, international trade law, public procurement law of international organizations, the law of international organizations, human rights, international humanitarian law, international environmental law, immunities, the law of treaties, the law of state responsibility, the application of international law in the domestic legal order. Litigation in Belgian courts, ICSID arbitration and annulment proceedings, UNCITRAL and ICC arbitral proceedings, arbitration under the aegis of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, International Court of Justice, ICC, European Court of Human Rights, subsidiary organs of the UN Security Council. 1 Cases include the following: Member of the ICSID ad hoc Committee in Víctor Pey Casado and President Allende Foundation v. Chile (ICSID Case No. ARB/98/2), second annulment proceedings. Counsel to the Kingdom of Spain on immunity issues arising before the Belgian courts. Counsel to the Republic of Kazakhstan in the enforcement proceedings re Anatolie Stati a.o. v. Kazakhstan, SCC Case No. V 116/2010. Counsel to the Democratic Republic of the Congo before the International Court of Justice in the Case concerning armed activities on the territory of the Congo, Congo v. Uganda, second phase (reparation) (until 2017). Counsel to the Minister-President of the Walloon Region of Belgium in negotiations towards the signature of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). Counsel to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in annulment proceedings before the Paris Court of Appeal – UN Convention against corruption. Counsel to Yukos Universal Ltd. in Belgian recognition and enforcement proceedings in Yukos Universal Ltd. v. Russian Federation. Counsel to Mr. Viorel Micula in Belgian enforcement proceedings of the ICSID arbitration award in Micula v. Romania (European Commission intervening). Counsel to an investor in an UNCITRAL investment arbitration case against a European country. Counsel to the Republic of Burundi in ICSID Case No. ARB/14/31, Tareq Bashir & Interpétrol v. Republic of Burundi. Counsel to the Kingdom of Belgium in ICSID Case No. ARB/12/29, Ping An Life Insurance Company, Limited and Ping An Insurance (Group) Company, Limited v. Belgium. Counsel to the Republic of Burundi in ICSID Case No. ARB/13/7, Mr. Joseph Houben v. Republic of Burundi. Counsel to the Council of the Western European Union and its former Member States regarding the closure of the organisation and succession to its residual rights and duties. Counsel to the Kingdom of Belgium in Mukeshimana a.o. v. Belgian State before the Belgian courts (tort liability regarding the Rwanda genocide). Counsel to the Belgian State in Touax and Touax Rom v. Belgium. Proceedings in the Belgian courts on a claim for damages for Belgium’s participation in the NATO air strikes in the Kosovo. Counsel to the Kingdom of the Netherlands regarding the delimitation of a Belgian off-shore windmill park in the North Sea. Counsel to the central bank of a G7 member state regarding its immunities from execution. Lead counsel to La Générale des Carrières et des Mines (Gécamines) in FG Hemisphere Associates v. DRC and Gécamines before the courts of Jersey and the Privy Council. 2 Counsel to Total SA (then TotalFinaElf) in Aung Maw Zin v. Total and Thierry Desmarest before the Belgian Supreme Court (Cour de cassation) and Constitutional Court regarding universal jurisdiction regarding alleged complicity with international crimes in Myanmar. Counsel to the Republic of Burundi in ICSID Case No. ARB/01/2, Mr. Antoine Goetz and others and S.A. Affinage des Métaux v. Republic of Burundi. Expert Witness on questions relating to the Energy Charter Treaty in Kyrgyz Republic v. Petrobart, arbitration under the aegis of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce. Counsel to the Democratic Republic of Congo in the annulment proceedings re Patrick Mitchell v. Democratic Republic of Congo, ICSID Case No. ARB/99/7. Counsel to the Kingdom of Belgium in the Arbitration regarding the Iron Rhine (“IJzeren Rijn”) Railway, Kingdom of Belgium v. Kingdom of The Netherlands, under the aegis of the Permanent Court of Arbitration. Counsel to the European Space Agency in various disputes relating to the Agency’s immunities and public procurement in matters of space technology. Counsel to Mr. David Zollmann before the UN Sanctions Committee and the UN Panel of Experts regarding United Nations sanctions against UNITA. Counsel to Générale des Carrières et des Mines in Ridgepointe Overseas Developments Ltd. v. Democratic Republic of Congo and Générale des Carrières et des Mines, ICSID Case No. ARB/00/8. Counsel to Libya in the Case concerning Questions of Interpretation and Application of the 1971 Montreal Convention arising from the Aerial Incident at Lockerbie, preliminary objections (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya v. United States and Libyan Arab Jamahiriya v. United Kingdom, International Court of Justice. IV. Professional Activities: Academic Professor of public international law (part-time) at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Member of the Centre de droit international. Former Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Law. Formerly visiting professor at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Université Aix-Marseille and the Institut d’études politiques (Sciences Po) of Lille, France. 3 V. Publications “La promotion des arbitres africains: pour une appropriation panafricaine du contentieux des investissements”, Annuaire africain de droit international, vol. XXIII, 2019 (forthcoming). “Les immunités de droit international : entre l’exception au droit d’accès à un juge et l’interprétation conciliante”, Revue critique de jurisprudence belge, 2019/1, p. 5 ff. Tom Ruys & Nicolas Angelet, eds., The Cambridge Handbook on Immunities and International Law, Cambridge University Press (to be published in 2019). “’Immunity and the Exercise of Jurisdiction – Indirect Impleading and Exequatur”, in: The Cambridge Handbook on Immunities and International Law, Tom Ruys & Nicolas Angelet, eds., Cambridge University Press (to be published in 2019). “Immunity from Execution and Domestic Procedural Rules: Preventive Control, Burden of Proof, and Discovery”, in: The Cambridge Handbook on Immunities and International Law, Tom Ruys & Nicolas Angelet, eds., Cambridge University Press (to be published in 2019) (with Mathias Audit and Maria-Clara Van den Bossche). “Immunity from Enforcement and the Commerciality Exception in International Law”, to be published in: E. Gaillard (ed.), Enforcing Arbitral Awards Against States – Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the International Arbitration Institute (forthcoming). “CETA and the debate on the reform of the investment regime”, in Makane Moïse Mbengue and Stefanie Schacherer (ed.), Foreign Investment under the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), Springer, 2019, p. 1-17. “L’avenir des Principes directeurs à l’intention des entreprises multinationales – l’accès effectif aux PCN, la visibilité et le devoir d’informer”, in: Nicola Bonnuci & Catherine Kessedjian, eds., 40 Ans des Lignes directrices de l’OCDE pour les entreprises multinationales / 40 Years of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, Paris, Pedone, 2018, p. 197-206. “Le juge belge face aux actes des organisations internationales”, in : A. Lagerwall (ed.), Les juges belges face aux actes adoptés par les Etats étrangers et les organisations internationales – quel contrôle au regard du droit international ?, Brussels, Larcier, 2017, 13- 51. “L’évolution de la fonction consulaire - Observations sur “La fin des consulats?” de R. Venneman (1965), Revue belge de droit international – numéro spécial : 50 voix pour fêter les 50 ans de la Revue, 2016. “Financing Investor-State Dispute Settlement: Is There a Role for the African Development Bank?“, in: Andrea Mennaker (ed.), International Arbitration and the Rule of Law: Contribution and Conformity, ICCA Congress Series No. 19, Wolters Kluwer, 2017, p. 546- 555. “La lex specialis et la liberté de l’interprète”, in Société française pour le droit international, La mise en oeuvre de la lex specialis dans le droit international contemporain, Paris, Pedone, 2017, 143-149. “Alleviating the Disruptive Nature of Investment Arbitration : Some Remarks on Restitution and Post-Award ADR”, in Jean Kalicky and Anna Joubin-Bret, eds., Reform of Investor-State Dispute Settlement: In Search of A Roadmap, TDM (1) 2014. 4 “Foreign Investment”, in : Oxford Bibliographies, Oxford University Press, 2014 (with